Author: Heather Morris

Heather C. Morris is the award-winning author of multiple books for kids – fiction, nonfiction, picture books, and middle grade – including ,Trunk Goes Thunk! (A 2025 Baker’s Dozen selection and a 2025 Keystone to Reading Preschool Nominee), a ghost story in the Haunted States of America Anthology (Godwin Books/Macmillan, 2024), and two more forthcoming picture books, Backyard Stew (2026) and Dribble, Shoot, Swish (2027). She is an active member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) and has written six titles for the educational market. Learn more about her online at heathercmorris.com or follow her on Instagram at @morr_writing. You can find her on Twitter at @morrwriting or at heathercmorris.com.

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Review: The Story of Juneteenth
ByHeather Morris June 9, 2025June 12, 2025

It’s not every day that our nation declares a new holiday. But in 2021, the United States government added our first new federal holiday since Martin Luther King Jr. Day (established in 1983) to the calendar. This new holiday is called Juneteenth. Perhaps like many of you, I had not grown up hearing about this…

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Good Medicine
ByHeather Morris March 8, 2021March 2, 2021

Anyone else hankering for a good laugh? Let me see those hands. You know you are – a great, big belly-laugh that is uncontrollable and uncontainable. Laughter has been a commodity that is hard to come by this past year. So many events of 2020 were heavy and difficult to understand, especially for our children….

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